A collection of twenty-four short stories and comic sketches by Anton Chekhov
This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.
"He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
Bringing together forty-eight stories from After Rain, The Hill Bachelors, A Bit on the Side, and Cheating at Canasta, this second volume of Trevor's collected fiction offers readers "treasures of gorgeous writing, brilliant dialogue, and ...
Introduction by Francine Prose Mavis Gallant. behavior, divided by syntax and tradition; two environments to consider, one becalmed in a long twilight of nineteenth-century religiosity; two codes of social behavior; much practical ...
This is a book to read slowly, savouring each story. It deserves a place in every Canadian book-lover’s library.
Disruption is a constant theme, whether the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoing Mansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expressions of Modernism.This new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33 stories and ...
This is a masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the 'major fiction writers of our time'.
A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza. “One of Mexico’s greatest ...
A remarkable anthology of short fiction by the award-winning late author of More Than Human includes a wide range of classic science fiction and fantasy tales, including "Thunder and Roses," "The Man Who Lost the Sea," and "Slow Sculpture," ...
This volume, which collects those stories published during Forster's lifetime, provides an opportunity for readers to discover these less familiar works.